On Wed 26-Jul-06 5:03pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > $HOME/vimfiles and $HOME/vimfiles/after should be in your 'rtp' (on > Windows); the first place where Vim looks for your _vimrc is $HOME even > though it is not in 'rtp'. (And BTW, $VIM should not be in your 'rtp' > either; but $VIM/vimfiles and $VIM/vimfiles/after -- and $VIMRUNTIME > which, on version 7.0, is $VIM/vim70 -- should.)
From :h starting Recommended place for your personal initializations: MS-DOS and Win32 $HOME/_vimrc or $VIM/_vimrc I use the second choice. In an office environment I do use the $home directory for all personalizations. But at home, I find it more convenient to not do this - nor do I rely on automatic assignment of $home (this can lead to using embedded spaces inside directory or filenames - an offense worthy of Gitmo :) My _vimrc contains: set runtimepath=$vimfiles,$vimruntime,$vimfiles\\after (I don't know where you got the idea that $vim was in there) where: let $vimfiles = $vim . '\vimfiles' is defined at the top of the file. -- Best regards, Bill